This is exactly what PG&E does. "Oh no, we f*ck'd up and it is completely our fault and now we need to pay fines... And raise rates to make up for the fines and add an extra charge to do things we we're supposed to be doing."
Same!! I live just south of Indy & we had our lead lines replaced & they also laid high-speed internet cables all over our city. Thanks to Biden/Harris
This is why infrastructure matters. This is why science matters. Why the EPA matters. Why any institution that looks after peoples' health and wellbeing matters. This is also why it's important to elect officials that understand that. The EPA was created under RICHARD NIXON, for chrissakes. This stuff didn't used to be partisan.
Yes, this is why science matters. However, it goes against good scientific and journalistic practice that A More Perfect Union didn’t confirm the hypothesis that lead pipes increased lead levels in tap water. They did not include any tests on the tap water.
I lived in Florida for several years. I watched as the beautiful springs with thousands of gallons of water flowing out of each of them got bought up by corporations like Coca-Cola because they knew clean water would be a very profitable commodity. I mean they bought them all over the state. Koch brothers built huge new plastic plants to distribute it. They knew the fear of tap water was creating a whole new, incredibly profitable market. I wouldn’t be surprised if they lobbied against helping municipalities and homeowners replace those old pipes.
Same in most states. What do you do when you have unending wealth? Invest in resources; fresh water is the most important resource we have, and they now control it.
I miss the well water I grew up on. City water tastes like the public pool where I live. Has 140 to 270 ppm contamination. I use a zero pitcher so my water tastes like water. So why am I paying a water bill when my pets and I have to filter it to drink it? I could boil cool and filter rain water cheaper than that water bill
@@rjl5759 👈 tell me you don't know anything about american economics without telling me! I swear, us canadians know more about your economics more than you americans do! 🙄
@@joshschaufele208 yeah the missing 20 trilli ? Oops we lost it sorry? Black budget for mad psychos and their DUMBs hit deep underground military bases and God only knows what? Space force? 🤔🧐🥺😒🖤💯🙏
Thank you for citing the 9 million miles of lead pipe statistic. I've been screaming about it for almost 30 years. Our water mains waste 6 BILLION GALLONS of potable water PER DAY from leaks; not private business or home lines, WATER MAINS. Let's get to work!
@@sirbow2 *high five* Indeed! (It's 7billion gallons/day, BTW.) My yard is filled with wild native species that rainfall irrigates. Xeriscaping, and other such sustainable methods, are crucial for longevity on this rock.
@@TinaMcCall.Any ideas on how to transition to something that's low maintenance and eco friendly for the pollinators and us? I know clover lawns are a thing but I haven't gotten it to work. I live in the DC/VA/MD area.
@@John-Smith02 Hi, there! My preferred method (if your area or HOA will allow it) is to first let the yard wild on it's own for a season to set solid roots. You could also dig up the grass to plant Christmas Fern. It is a ground cover plant that does well in the DMV, and should look nice through transition, or be the new carpet. For pollinator-friendly plants, your local ACE Hardware is a great resource, and should have recommended native wildflower seed packs. If not, look at area university Extension websites. Best to you, and thanks for thinking my thumb is more than a greenish beige!
@John-Smith02 Hi, there! My preferred method (if your area or HOA will allow it) is to first let the yard wild on its own for a season to set solid roots. You could also dig up the grass to plant Christmas Fern. It is a ground cover plant that does well in the DMV, and should look nice through transition, or be the new carpet. For pollinator-friendly plants, your local ACE Hardware is a great resource, and should have recommended native wildflower seed packs. If not, look at area university Extension websites. Best to you, and thanks for thinking my thumb is more than a greenish beige!
One thing we can all count on is America dropping the ball every single time something important needs to get done. Corruption, incompetence, willful neglect, and intentional indifference. Every time.
Did you watch the ENTIRE video? The Biden Infrastructure bill is providing the money to get this done, with a deadline of 10 years, not multiple decades like the former administration. I'm not saying that government is perfect, but we can certainly get more from the Democrats than we can from the fascists
Wowowow. If you house is built before 1986 you are most likely being comtaminated with lead??? Im sorry, that is completely incorrect. First lead piping was being phased out long before this, it is just in 1986, it was officially banned. Houses build in 1981 are very likely to not have lead water lines Second, even before that, lead pipes were often more expensive and thus only some water districts chose to use them. There are many districts that didnt use lead pipe even before being phased out. Third, even with lead pipe, as long as the water isnt corrosive, there isnt an issue with lead contamination. What caused the Flint desaster was the city switching to a different water source that was more corrosive to lead pipes. Prior to the switch, lead was not nearly as big of an issue. Yes, lead pipes should be switched out but the level of lead in people has decreased rapidly over the last 40 years. This is mostly due to the phase out of leaded fuel (unleaded gasoline). The EPA keeps lowering the threshold for lead exposure causing more water to be considered tanted with lead when in reality the amount of lead people are exposed to today is far lower. If the EPA keeps lowering the standard, eventually all water will be considered as having high levels of lead. We will never be able to eliminate all lead.
I'd also like to point out that nearly 1/4 of UK domestic water services have lead piping. It is not just a US problem, you just don't ever look outside the US.
Hearing about how government funding went to local construction crews to improve their neighborhoods and quality of life gave me good feels I haven't felt in a long, long time. ❤ I am on board for that.
The disastrous decision to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act in the late 1990s led to the spectacular failure of huge banks during the financial crisis of 2007-2008. To prevent a future catastrophe, Dodd-Frank and this Act both need to be revived right away. What happened with SVB is just the start of what will happen if nothing is done to address the current problem.
I think SVB was attempting to restructure their bond holdings. Yes, they would lose money if they sold their low-yield bonds. However, they were attempting to make up for it by repurchasing bonds on the open market at the higher interest rate.
The SVB scenario warns that the effects of the Fed's rate hikes are still being felt, despite the economy's so far successful resilience. Investors need to be cautious about the upcoming inevitable in situations like these. I'll suggest hiring a financial advisor because you don't have to act on every forecast. For a time, I've been using this as my backup strategy.
Jessica Lee Horst is the licensed advisor I use. Just research the name. You’d find necessary details to work with a correspondence to set up an appointment.
I find this informative, curiously explored Jessica on the web, spotted her consulting page, and was able to schedule a call session with her, she shows quite a great deal of expertise from her resume.. very much appreciated
I grew up in Milwaukee, too. It's by design that Black folks suffer in this highly segregated city. Think about the problems and solutions, we have no excuse in the richest country in history to ALLOW this to happen. This story is exactly what equity is all about.
I've always been mystified about who stands to lose anything if lead pipes got purged from our neighborhoods. Who would oppose a paradigm shift like this?
@@dominicfucinari1942 I won't try to add logic to racism, but I'd say hate. Not all Americans believe that Black people are equal or deserving of equity.
@@jcehlert As LBJ said "If you can convince the LOWEST white man that he is better than the BEST colored man, you can easily pick his pocket. Just give him someone to look down on and he (white people) will empty his pockets for you."
segregation specifically exist so they can make sure the money goes to the right place. there is no such thing as separate but equal. separation leads to inequality.
Where I live the service line is the responsibility of the homeowner. How many rental units made billions for landlords, while they cheaped out on replacing those ancient lead service lines?
From Milwaukee. My daughter at 3 had slightly elevated levels of lead. Thank goodness we caught it and started filtering and she shows no signs of trouble. The Republican Wisconsin Legislature did NOT care. They still DO NOT care. Thanks to the Infrastructure bill, I am seeing progress in my community.
I live on the South side. The service lines were replaced on my block last week. They did the next block over a couple weeks ago. The work is getting done!
I didn't want to watch more doom and gloom. I'm not sure that I can take much more but your video caught my eye. I knew a guy from Southside Chicago who had lead poisoning. I thought that it was from old paint. I never thought to ask him how he was poisoned. The health of so many kids is at stake. This video is very important. I'm crying but thanks. ❤
Seeing Mandela Barnes in a More Perfect Union vid just made my day. Met him in person during his Senatorial campaign and he is one damn good human being.
I live outside of Milwaukee. I'm continually amazed and appalled how Milwaukee rushes to invest in shiny expensive projects like the replacement of County stadium and the Bradley center. Replacement of lead pipes? Nope, not cool or shiny enough. It has been criminally unfair to our citizens affected by this issue to have taken this long to address. THANK YOU Mandela Barnes for highlighting this and your efforts!!
In a more perfect union Mandela Barnes would be my US senator. But I know he will commtomue to do all that is within his power to make this country a better place for all to live. Thank you Mandela.
if these investors own a city water supply, going bankrupt from the lack of maintenance, they sell off the assetts and fire all the workers to walk away with a profit and leave the people with no supply.
Joe Biden made the tax bill….or some portions of it after his 45+ years in government. Companies with enough money to purchase losses make for less taxes in the interim for the rich.
Unfortunately, I don’t know how true this is. In really small towns that have municipal electric for example, some of the rates are just as expensive as the larger companies, but with crumbling infrastructure and no benefits. Rural communities that are lower income and get most of their funding from grants can’t keep up with modern energy demands, so unless there’s a way to fix that, it makes it difficult. My town is currently having this issue because we get most of our funding through grants and our town has a lot of mismanagement. It sounds good in theory, but major IOUs in my state are regulated, while municipals are not.
@@nonya.biznessNo, I agree entirely. But not all publicly owned utilities operate the same and some can, and are, prone to human error. Especially when those who own are incompetent. Personally, I think everyone should be allowed to generate and use their own energy without a middle man and am a huge proponent of solar and alternative energy solutions for part of that reason (other reason being that it’s far better for the environment).
I grew up in an old house just outside of Detroit. My parents moved there several years before I was born. My dad died of cancer in his 40's, my mom died at 60 after decades of bad health, my older sister died in her 50's after a life time of arthritis and other health issues. I've had food and chemical sensitivities causing fatigue my whole life. I did start avoiding household toxins and eating whole foods a couple of decades ago which I think has kept me much healthier than the rest of my family.
I grew up in the worst part of Milwaukee and now I’m in just a bad of a spot as then. 65 miles west in an old old house. Hope I can get clean drinking water soon.
This reminds me of the Lead Crime Hypothesis, essentially violent crime dropped nationwide after we took the lead out of gasoline years ago. I wonder what we’ll notice if we can ever get lead out of the water
We can't forget about lead paint! Also, Milwaukee uses Orthophosphate to prevent corrosion of the pipes which drastically reduces the amount of lead that is actually getting into humans. Milwaukee is doing their best to get those lead service lines replaced as fast as they can. It would have been awesome to hear from someone with Milwaukee Water Works in this video as well. Great video, thank you for your work on this!
Especially down south where the states are so poor they can only fix infrastructure from federal funding but call helping poor people in a city, healthcare for all, basic quality of life, "socialism"
@@Jakeurb8ty82 TEL contaminated the entire planet by the 1950s. Boomers and subsequent generations were quantitatively dumber than previous generations. Read up on Clair Patterson's discovery.
Being a Wisconsinite I wish Mandela Barnes was elected our U.S. Senator instead of Ron Johnson. Note of interest Ron Johnson along with the rest of the Republicans consider spending money on replacing Lead Water Lines, Inflationary wasteful spending. KEEP VOTING BLUE
Fun fact: the mouth piece of old brass instruments often has a high level of lead. The only recently added regulations to that. Additionally, your house and car keys likely have high lead levels, and some people let babies put keys in their mouths. Lead used to be in our gasoline filling the air with every passing car, now it's only in the gas for small planes that get to carpet bomb nearby small airports and towns with lead vapor. Lead is in a surprising number of things, and you can guess who has the least exposure to it. They are very selective about which areas gets updates to regulations and infrastructure. Yet conservatives tell us that systemic racism doesn't exist.
Lead has been used to transport fresh drinking water to thirsty people for *thousands* of years, well before the U.S.A. was ever even a concept in the heads of our forefathers. The Romans used lead to reinforce the world-famous Roman aqueducts from erosion. Lead was used by Romans in dinnerware, in makeup, as a seasoning on foods, and there were even several ways of drinking lead *intentionally* such as through a lead and grape based syrup made by heating a lead vessel filled with grape juice, called "sapa." Nearly every infrastructural pipeline made before *1986* has lead in it. That is an *incomprehensible* amount of lead piping that you seem to believe should have been pulled out over night. And on whos dollar? 100 years ago someone builds a house, they pay a guy to put pipes in, the guy puts pipes in -- bang -- job done. 20 years later old boy kicks the bucket, the house is sold, someone new moves in and then *they* spend 20 years in that house before retiring and moving to Boca Raton. The house is sold again. This time the owner spends 20 years living in that house, drinking and bathing out of 60 year old pipes that were made using "perfectly safe" metals before reading about "lead lined pipes causing illness" in his morning paper. He goes to the doctor, what do you know, he has high levels of lead in his system. Who pays his medical bills? Who pays for the pipes to be replaced? The previous owner had nothing to do with the construction, you never met the original owner, and certainly never met the contractors (if they were even contractors to begin with), so who are you going to blame? Yesterday lead pipes were safe and everyone had them, now I'm supposed to come up with the money to lay all new pipes? Maybe you're also forgetting the very real socioeconomic factors that surround the process of replacing lead lined pipes? I mean, have you even asked *anyone* who has had their lead lined pipes replaced what kind of hoops *they* had to jump through in the first place? Probably not. You'd rather be a terrorist and make everything racist. "Those specific dudes over there of a specific skin color don't have lead in their water. Oh, but a guy with a different skin color does? That's racist!!" I see Americans. I see U.S. citizens. I see people who have no more -- and no fewer -- rights than myself. And I see humans struggling to reconcile a misunderstanding of an ancient people. But I'll be right here for when you can find evidence to support your claim about systematic racism. You know, like, a law or statute that that exemplifies your position about an entire country of people and how you view the world? Spoiler alert: you won't find one. I hope you do, honestly, we could shed some light on it together and make a change in real time... but you wont.
I am glad to see this happening. Always glad to see people's lives being improved because people are seeing things through to completion. I hope this continues.
About 15 years ago, I did a little bit of work for an app that was made to track and grade infrastructure in each state, city and county. I spent most of my time being shocked by what I was seeing. I can summarize by saying there were very few good grades across the board.
Phasing out lead pipes in 10 years throughout the US with grant money, not loans. Biden-Harris listening to all the community members on the front lines and the Infrastructure bill now financing and training people to do the work did this. Heroes. Long overdue, 10 years is too long and adversarial, forces motivated by greed and prejudice still at work, but courageous forces of good also do exist and are hard at work. Bless you all!
Credit where credit is due. At least Biden/Harris started to make progress on this issue. BBB (stopped by Manchin and Sinema) would have been the greatest policy which would include investments in infrastructure.
They are bailing out cities that did not raise their rates to make the necessary investments. They are penalizing the rational to help the irrational. That's evil.
This reminds me of being in highschool in 2016 and the water at the school was deemed "unsafe". It was always common knowledge that the water in the science labs were dangerous and bad to drink but the rest was fine??. They found out the entire water in the school was like %8000 of lead and other bad stuff. There were stacks of water bottles(crates full) in every corner of the halls and they shut down ALL water fountains. The lunch people had to cook with bottled water too.
@@Official-Comments Your tongue must be tired after so much bootlicking and corporate media cock sucking. I recommend you get ground news so you can see the actual news, facts, without any bias and see who owns the media sources the stories are coming from. You don't have to be this way. As a country of immigrants, NO ONE is "unauthorized." That's just plain bigoted. We are ALL from Earth. You cannot have borders on the same planet.
That's capitalism for you. The ultimate destroyer of economies, humanity, quality of life, the environment, and the whole dang planet. Where profit is top priority over people and sustainable business practices. Glad the infrastructure bill is improving a lot for the Americans who need it most. We can do even better and strive to do so! If anyone is curious there is a Quality of Life Statistic measured every year and by each country. The USA, every year, is nowhere near close to #1. The countries in the top 5 for quality of life tend to be Denmark, Sweden, Norway, New Zealand and Australia. Those countries also don't have the levels of predatory capitalism we have, nor conservative run governments nor religious populations. So that's what really increases the quality of life: little to no predatory capitalism, conservatives, and religion. it just makes life better considering the end goal for religions, conservatism, and capitalism IS ultimate destruction.
White kid here. I had to be monotaured for lead from when I first remember living to thr time I was 5 or 6. It wasn't poisoning but it was elevated. I had to have blood drawn every few months to ensure the level was going down and my veigns colapsed all the time so a butterfly was necessary. Lead sucks and my parents had insurance to deal with it. I don't know what would have happened if they were less well off.
It would be great to see more on other issues impacting our water in the US and our health like PFAS, nitrate contamination, water affordability and more!
Big up on making this video brother. As it's something I've known about for a long time now but it seems in order for action to occur there either has to be enough people that tune in or the right person
I live on the skirts of MKE. i am crushed everytime a tax break comes up and its given out to the people that can AFFORD taxes. These are important fixes needed in this first world country. To neglect it means neglecting the health of the people in it. Keep this rolling.
Damn, Mandela Barnes is making videos for you guys! Shame people in Wisconsin weren't smart enough to elect him to the US Senate over Putin's good friend Ron Johnson.
The Infrastructure Act did allocate over $3 billion to address this. More will be needed, but first steps always have to be taken to fix a long neglected problem.
This is a income level problem not race. Middle class people moved to newer homes in the 80's and 90's where lead was not used, leaving old neighborhoods and houses to be bought by low-income people.
It's a responsability problem. Some cities raised their rates to have the money to make the necessary investments and some didn't. And now we are penalizing those who did to reward those who did not.
I am very sad and appalled that people are being subjected to lead poisoning. I worked with a gentleman, who lost his son at 5 years old, from lead poisoning. I am white, from New England, voting for Kamala Harris who will work for ALL of us. Please vote Blue all the way. I am a 74 year old One Cat Lady, childless not by choice. I want my tax dollars to go to replacing lead pipes to help people and their children to be safe. Having worked with children, I value them. All of them are so worth keeping safe.
So let me get this straight, you'd vote for Kamala who doesn't care about you, instead of voting for rfk jr, who literally talks about specifically making these types of changes?🤔🤦🤦🤷
I would like to point out that nearly 1/4 of UK domestic water services have lead piping. It is not just a US problem, you just don't ever look outside the US. Lead piping is a very complex problem.
@Jack-jp6ki oh yeah and his weird workout routine ad really helped him look great as well as the fact he contradicts himself constantly and the rest of the Kennedy family didn't want him to run because he is mentally unwell and trust me he is! Go look at the John Oliver episode on him
In the UK lead water pipes were phased out during the 1960s and made illegal in 1969. In properties built before this time however the lead piping from the houses to the mains remained in situ as it is the property owner's responsibility. This is estimated to be 40% of housing. But it is my understanding that the build up of a biofilm on the internal surface of pipes acts as a buffer. But the corrosiveness of the water needs to be factored in.
construction works built this countruction works will make a better county for all. never forget to thank those guys out in the heat and the snow building those roads and those communites and tbh making it great
I grew up in the 80’s (so…100% outside in the dirt) in an unrenovated-ever house from 1908 in the shadow of a smokestack from a WWII era factory and ongoing chemical plant area, down the street from an actual Superfund site. They found high levels of mercury and arsenic in the soil in our yard that explained a lot about some of our plants not flowering and dying in various horrible ways from time to time. Can’t wait to see how it works out for me. I’m firmly into the reaping portion of life.
When parents bought there house, they weren't informed about the lead water lines. They installed a lead filter just after the water shut off in the basement to correct the issue. I was born 4 years after the purchase. I'm now 36, joined the military, become a plumber and opened my own business. Almost 50 years to replace the lead water mains in my hometown i grew up in. If they can't replace the water mains quickly, why not install lead filters for free to area that are hit worse then others.
It depends on the state. We have had our water tested and won an award as one of the best in the nation. Two months ago all the houses in our town have to submit information on the piping, that included photos of the pipes to make sure they did not have lead or copper with magnets attached. The inspector came to my house to verify more because it was build during the great depression. We are north enough to be close to the source of water that feeds the Mississippi river, before it becomes polluted. Attach a magnet to your water pipe and if doesn't stick you are in trouble.
Definitely should get the real estate lobbies on this. If more people explicitly say they will not move to a neighborhood with lead pipes, no matter the house discount, real estate lobbyists might feel pressure to support politicians (state and local) who will be serious about replacing pipes.
I bought my first single family home at the age of 20. One of the documents I was required to be notified of and sign was a LEAD PAINT NOTICE since it had been built with quality in the 1940's and this was required for any home prior to 1970-something, as the old paint layers below could peel and expose residents to its neuro-toxicity There was some kind of black pipe more recently (90's?) used in mobile homes which was also super toxic and had to be removed and replaced (I learned this as my mother sold her mother's home and was moving into one). So I just don't understand why water (something every living thing needs to literally survive) pipes made with lead, haven't been addressed until now. I'm thrilled it's being rectified now, as well as it can be, and this is exactly the kind of thing which makes me cautious of other new-ish developments (gene replacement, toxic everything, etc.) we're told are so amazing. Always do your due diligence, use your critical thinking skills and make the best decision for yourself and your loved ones at the time you're informed enough to do so. It's the only way you have a chance. EATING GARLIC does help mitigate lead exposure and remove it safely from the body, according to our own US government. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22151785/ It begins with "Previous studies on animals have revealed that garlic (Allium sativum) is effective in reducing blood and tissue lead concentrations. The aim of this study was to investigate therapeutic effects of garlic and compare it with d-penicillamine in patients with chronic lead poisoning." When it comes to the only body I'll ever get, for my money, I trust my ancestors' knowledge for nutrition and maintaining health in common sense ways they knew well and we have been largely pulled away from. It's beautiful to see traditional organic (everything used to be) farmers, regenerative agriculture methods, AMP farmers, homesteaders and other "health nuts" paying attention and bringing this back to the forefront. Soil health is pure gold from a value standpoint, as is protecting (not poisoning) our pollinators. Clean water & air, things we take for granted. THANK YOU ALL for paying attention and working together to make our existence more life-sustaining and comfortable rather than the opposite, suffering and disease.
If you maintain the chemistry correctly once the scaling of the pipe happens there is little to no risk. The problem is when the municipals cheap out and change the chemistry of the water which is what happened to Flint. Once you strip the protective scaling your done. Nearly every city in the US has lead pipes.
With this knowledge, it's why people have trouble learning and growing to try and become better. The top 1% is all that matters to those who control the money.
I have been writing on Social media for over a decade we need to rebuild the entire Country from the ground up. Modernization for another 200 centuries. Instead of banaids that kick the can down the road
Unfortunately Flint Michigan this was 10 years too late. Even with most of the pipes be replaced that was just the pipes going to the house not inside the house. then you got the additional problem of them still being a liquor tell me a water.
Wow but… howcome Illinois & Wisconsin are the only actual counts… & Illinois is the highest which is crazy, I had no clue I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago & the city.
Holy hell was this an amazing endorsement of Kamala Harris, I love it! I'd been wondering about the Flint, Michigan water issue and how it's still not fixed and it seems there is a plan to fix everything
Whatever happened to my job at the border construction? Please explain it to me like I’m 5, when I was actually the subcontractor for the wall. I’d kiss you if I could.
@@HoustonRacewayKid The most common way for "undocumented" workers to get into the country is fly in on a temporary visa, then overstay. Wall is just kind of useless when airplanes exist.
And to think... of ALL the other ideas there are for Capitalists to invest in, restrict, price gouge & get rich from... they chose to play with a literal necessity of life.
why is it that no one ever asks "how do we pay for another nuclear carrier?" but when it's saving kids lives or veterans congress drags their feet or go on vacation?
…. I know it’s both sides here but there are more examples of the right actively voting against legislation that would help this crisis. Vote blue so the lead poisoning doesn’t impact another election
@digitalreject3233lol man I know its like they wanna distract everybody with lead poisoning while they poison our youth with grooming and hormones and then murder the unborn ones 😂😂😂😂😂
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This is exactly what PG&E does. "Oh no, we f*ck'd up and it is completely our fault and now we need to pay fines... And raise rates to make up for the fines and add an extra charge to do things we we're supposed to be doing."
Yeah privatization of infrastructure DOES NOT WORK
Yes the shareholders made a bad bet and they should take the loss . Not us ratepayers.❤😂
A great insight is there for public as opposed to private ownership of our utilities. ❤😂🎉
Same with CenterPoint. Guess where the former CEO of PG&E went…
"Oh yes, give us more subsidies to pay for the equipment we damaged from neglect and burned towns down with."
Indianapolis is actively replaced all of these lines from Biden’s Build Back Better Deal right now. Just had mine swapped out last week.
Nice, Biden did something good for someone. Trump wants to fire regulators as favors for his top donors.
Same!! I live just south of Indy & we had our lead lines replaced & they also laid high-speed internet cables all over our city. Thanks to Biden/Harris
@@nolongerblocked6210 yet indiana will still vote 65% trump 32% harris
@@antimatter7629even if they voted 60% Harris 40% trump, the gerrymandered map will still deliver more votes for trump…
Louisville has fully replaced their pipes and we're so thankful.
This is why infrastructure matters. This is why science matters. Why the EPA matters. Why any institution that looks after peoples' health and wellbeing matters.
This is also why it's important to elect officials that understand that.
The EPA was created under RICHARD NIXON, for chrissakes. This stuff didn't used to be partisan.
The EPA is among the government agencies that will be done away with if the gQp get the opportunity to enact project 2025.
Thank you. I'd just say vote blue, this shouldn't be partisan but Republicans made it that way. So vote for the side that still has working brains.
Believe it was Ralph Nader who called Nixon the best Democrat president since FDR. Public pressure works!
Yes, this is why science matters. However, it goes against good scientific and journalistic practice that A More Perfect Union didn’t confirm the hypothesis that lead pipes increased lead levels in tap water. They did not include any tests on the tap water.
@@bensonboys6609 because it's already been confirmed that lead pipes can contaminate water.
I lived in Florida for several years. I watched as the beautiful springs with thousands of gallons of water flowing out of each of them got bought up by corporations like Coca-Cola because they knew clean water would be a very profitable commodity. I mean they bought them all over the state. Koch brothers built huge new plastic plants to distribute it. They knew the fear of tap water was creating a whole new, incredibly profitable market. I wouldn’t be surprised if they lobbied against helping municipalities and homeowners replace those old pipes.
The bottled water industry shouldn't even exist. I suspect it is them who want to maintain the led pipes.
Same in most states. What do you do when you have unending wealth? Invest in resources; fresh water is the most important resource we have, and they now control it.
I miss the well water I grew up on. City water tastes like the public pool where I live. Has 140 to 270 ppm contamination. I use a zero pitcher so my water tastes like water. So why am I paying a water bill when my pets and I have to filter it to drink it? I could boil cool and filter rain water cheaper than that water bill
@@donnahersey9813 The Koch brothers. Another group of billionaires who should have been on the Titan submersible.
Filtered water is way better for you and way cheaper.
Spend my tax dollars on this and I won't object. This is why I don't vote for tax cuts.
And this is why I vote that all people, including billionaires, pay their fair share of taxes.
@@julioblanco which candidate is that?
@@jasonlacroix6083 certainly not the convicted felon!
Do you live there? I know you understand that federal government is not in charge of local municipalities in your city.
@@rjl5759 👈 tell me you don't know anything about american economics without telling me!
I swear, us canadians know more about your economics more than you americans do! 🙄
Must not be filed in the defense budget, just bill it to the pentagon
Sorry sir, on behalf of the USDOD, lost the money
HAH! It'd get cleaned up right-quick!
@@joshschaufele208 yeah the missing 20 trilli ? Oops we lost it sorry? Black budget for mad psychos and their DUMBs hit
deep underground military bases and God only knows what? Space force? 🤔🧐🥺😒🖤💯🙏
That would be weird for the federal government to be involved in any city/town utilities or water.
@@Twindragon-tu1wd gdp is not money you own outright
Thank you for citing the 9 million miles of lead pipe statistic. I've been screaming about it for almost 30 years.
Our water mains waste 6 BILLION GALLONS of potable water PER DAY from leaks; not private business or home lines, WATER MAINS.
Let's get to work!
And how much potable water is used for watering lawns? It's disgusting.
@@sirbow2 *high five* Indeed!
(It's 7billion gallons/day, BTW.)
My yard is filled with wild native species that rainfall irrigates. Xeriscaping, and other such sustainable methods, are crucial for longevity on this rock.
@@TinaMcCall.Any ideas on how to transition to something that's low maintenance and eco friendly for the pollinators and us? I know clover lawns are a thing but I haven't gotten it to work. I live in the DC/VA/MD area.
@@John-Smith02 Hi, there! My preferred method (if your area or HOA will allow it) is to first let the yard wild on it's own for a season to set solid roots.
You could also dig up the grass to plant Christmas Fern. It is a ground cover plant that does well in the DMV, and should look nice through transition, or be the new carpet.
For pollinator-friendly plants, your local ACE Hardware is a great resource, and should have recommended native wildflower seed packs. If not, look at area university Extension websites.
Best to you, and thanks for thinking my thumb is more than a greenish beige!
@John-Smith02 Hi, there! My preferred method (if your area or HOA will allow it) is to first let the yard wild on its own for a season to set solid roots.
You could also dig up the grass to plant Christmas Fern. It is a ground cover plant that does well in the DMV, and should look nice through transition, or be the new carpet.
For pollinator-friendly plants, your local ACE Hardware is a great resource, and should have recommended native wildflower seed packs. If not, look at area university Extension websites.
Best to you, and thanks for thinking my thumb is more than a greenish beige!
One thing we can all count on is America dropping the ball every single time something important needs to get done. Corruption, incompetence, willful neglect, and intentional indifference. Every time.
Did you watch the ENTIRE video? The Biden Infrastructure bill is providing the money to get this done, with a deadline of 10 years, not multiple decades like the former administration. I'm not saying that government is perfect, but we can certainly get more from the Democrats than we can from the fascists
@@angeladansie4378keep an eye on it and make sure it doesn't get derailed
Wowowow. If you house is built before 1986 you are most likely being comtaminated with lead??? Im sorry, that is completely incorrect.
First lead piping was being phased out long before this, it is just in 1986, it was officially banned. Houses build in 1981 are very likely to not have lead water lines
Second, even before that, lead pipes were often more expensive and thus only some water districts chose to use them. There are many districts that didnt use lead pipe even before being phased out.
Third, even with lead pipe, as long as the water isnt corrosive, there isnt an issue with lead contamination. What caused the Flint desaster was the city switching to a different water source that was more corrosive to lead pipes. Prior to the switch, lead was not nearly as big of an issue.
Yes, lead pipes should be switched out but the level of lead in people has decreased rapidly over the last 40 years. This is mostly due to the phase out of leaded fuel (unleaded gasoline). The EPA keeps lowering the threshold for lead exposure causing more water to be considered tanted with lead when in reality the amount of lead people are exposed to today is far lower. If the EPA keeps lowering the standard, eventually all water will be considered as having high levels of lead. We will never be able to eliminate all lead.
@@angeladansie4378 Do you know what fascism is? Try looking up a definition before using a word
I'd also like to point out that nearly 1/4 of UK domestic water services have lead piping. It is not just a US problem, you just don't ever look outside the US.
Hearing about how government funding went to local construction crews to improve their neighborhoods and quality of life gave me good feels I haven't felt in a long, long time. ❤
I am on board for that.
The disastrous decision to repeal the Glass-Steagall Act in the late 1990s led to the spectacular failure of huge banks during the financial crisis of 2007-2008. To prevent a future catastrophe, Dodd-Frank and this Act both need to be revived right away. What happened with SVB is just the start of what will happen if nothing is done to address the current problem.
I think SVB was attempting to restructure their bond holdings. Yes, they would lose money if they sold their low-yield bonds. However, they were attempting to make up for it by repurchasing bonds on the open market at the higher interest rate.
The SVB scenario warns that the effects of the Fed's rate hikes are still being felt, despite the economy's so far successful resilience. Investors need to be cautious about the upcoming inevitable in situations like these. I'll suggest hiring a financial advisor because you don't have to act on every forecast. For a time, I've been using this as my backup strategy.
hi, I have actually thought about this but the risks have always put me off. please, who is your adviser?? like a really good one
Jessica Lee Horst is the licensed advisor I use. Just research the name. You’d find necessary details to work with a correspondence to set up an appointment.
I find this informative, curiously explored Jessica on the web, spotted her consulting page, and was able to schedule a call session with her, she shows quite a great deal of expertise from her resume.. very much appreciated
I grew up in Milwaukee, too. It's by design that Black folks suffer in this highly segregated city. Think about the problems and solutions, we have no excuse in the richest country in history to ALLOW this to happen. This story is exactly what equity is all about.
I've always been mystified about who stands to lose anything if lead pipes got purged from our neighborhoods. Who would oppose a paradigm shift like this?
@@dominicfucinari1942 I won't try to add logic to racism, but I'd say hate. Not all Americans believe that Black people are equal or deserving of equity.
@@jcehlert As LBJ said "If you can convince the LOWEST white man that he is better than the BEST colored man, you can easily pick his pocket. Just give him someone to look down on and he (white people) will empty his pockets for you."
@@jcehlert Keep playing victim, doing your people a great service. Pathetic.
segregation specifically exist so they can make sure the money goes to the right place. there is no such thing as separate but equal. separation leads to inequality.
Where I live the service line is the responsibility of the homeowner. How many rental units made billions for landlords, while they cheaped out on replacing those ancient lead service lines?
From Milwaukee. My daughter at 3 had slightly elevated levels of lead. Thank goodness we caught it and started filtering and she shows no signs of trouble.
The Republican Wisconsin Legislature did NOT care. They still DO NOT care. Thanks to the Infrastructure bill, I am seeing progress in my community.
Voting matters. Going to be another close election in November.
In Milwaukee here, I voted for Mandela Barnes, he would’ve been awesome. Instead we ended up with the dumbest person in the senate, Ron Johnson.
I live on the South side. The service lines were replaced on my block last week. They did the next block over a couple weeks ago.
The work is getting done!
I didn't want to watch more doom and gloom. I'm not sure that I can take much more but your video caught my eye. I knew a guy from Southside Chicago who had lead poisoning. I thought that it was from old paint. I never thought to ask him how he was poisoned. The health of so many kids is at stake. This video is very important. I'm crying but thanks. ❤
@@nonya.bizness I'm so sorry for you. This should never have happened to you. I hope that you life will be better from now on.
Seeing Mandela Barnes in a More Perfect Union vid just made my day. Met him in person during his Senatorial campaign and he is one damn good human being.
He sure is!
The reduction of lead poisoning is directly connected to the lowering violent crime.
I live outside of Milwaukee. I'm continually amazed and appalled how Milwaukee rushes to invest in shiny expensive projects like the replacement of County stadium and the Bradley center. Replacement of lead pipes? Nope, not cool or shiny enough. It has been criminally unfair to our citizens affected by this issue to have taken this long to address. THANK YOU Mandela Barnes for highlighting this and your efforts!!
In a more perfect union Mandela Barnes would be my US senator. But I know he will commtomue to do all that is within his power to make this country a better place for all to live. Thank you Mandela.
Even if you're not drinking it, you're washing in it, cleaning with it, etc.
if these investors own a city water supply, going bankrupt from the lack of maintenance, they sell off the assetts and fire all the workers to walk away with a profit and leave the people with no supply.
Great point
Joe Biden made the tax bill….or some portions of it after his 45+ years in government. Companies with enough money to purchase losses make for less taxes in the interim for the rich.
All utilities should be nonprofit and publicly owned, it would prevent price gouging and the negligence to communities.
Unfortunately, I don’t know how true this is. In really small towns that have municipal electric for example, some of the rates are just as expensive as the larger companies, but with crumbling infrastructure and no benefits. Rural communities that are lower income and get most of their funding from grants can’t keep up with modern energy demands, so unless there’s a way to fix that, it makes it difficult. My town is currently having this issue because we get most of our funding through grants and our town has a lot of mismanagement. It sounds good in theory, but major IOUs in my state are regulated, while municipals are not.
@@nonya.biznessNo, I agree entirely. But not all publicly owned utilities operate the same and some can, and are, prone to human error. Especially when those who own are incompetent. Personally, I think everyone should be allowed to generate and use their own energy without a middle man and am a huge proponent of solar and alternative energy solutions for part of that reason (other reason being that it’s far better for the environment).
I grew up in an old house just outside of Detroit. My parents moved there several years before I was born. My dad died of cancer in his 40's, my mom died at 60 after decades of bad health, my older sister died in her 50's after a life time of arthritis and other health issues. I've had food and chemical sensitivities causing fatigue my whole life. I did start avoiding household toxins and eating whole foods a couple of decades ago which I think has kept me much healthier than the rest of my family.
I grew up in the worst part of Milwaukee and now I’m in just a bad of a spot as then. 65 miles west in an old old house. Hope I can get clean drinking water soon.
This reminds me of the Lead Crime Hypothesis, essentially violent crime dropped nationwide after we took the lead out of gasoline years ago. I wonder what we’ll notice if we can ever get lead out of the water
Did it correlate with less aggression or something?
Iirc it was less violent crime in general, specifically murder, since the switchover
We have the same problem in Canada. Here in the city of Montreal, we started replacing those lead service lines about 10 years ago.
We can't forget about lead paint!
Also, Milwaukee uses Orthophosphate to prevent corrosion of the pipes which drastically reduces the amount of lead that is actually getting into humans.
Milwaukee is doing their best to get those lead service lines replaced as fast as they can. It would have been awesome to hear from someone with Milwaukee Water Works in this video as well.
Great video, thank you for your work on this!
Lead poisoning explaines a lot
Yeah, explains the RNC convention
Leaded gas until the 80's, Small aircraft (like cessnas) still use lead as anti-knock additive.
Especially down south where the states are so poor they can only fix infrastructure from federal funding but call helping poor people in a city, healthcare for all, basic quality of life, "socialism"
@@Jakeurb8ty82 TEL contaminated the entire planet by the 1950s. Boomers and subsequent generations were quantitatively dumber than previous generations. Read up on Clair Patterson's discovery.
No wonder everyone older than a millennial is a psycho.
Being a Wisconsinite I wish Mandela Barnes was elected our U.S. Senator instead of Ron Johnson.
Note of interest Ron Johnson along with the rest of the Republicans consider spending money on replacing Lead Water Lines, Inflationary wasteful spending.
KEEP VOTING BLUE
Our state's political situation is so screwed up, I agree, Mandela Barnes would've at least done his job, unlike Johnson...
Agree 💯%. It's appalling that someone like RoJo stays in office. We need more people like Mandela Barnes.
These politicians point fingers and will fight tax increases or defending tax programs that don't benefit most Americans.
Fun fact: the mouth piece of old brass instruments often has a high level of lead. The only recently added regulations to that. Additionally, your house and car keys likely have high lead levels, and some people let babies put keys in their mouths. Lead used to be in our gasoline filling the air with every passing car, now it's only in the gas for small planes that get to carpet bomb nearby small airports and towns with lead vapor. Lead is in a surprising number of things, and you can guess who has the least exposure to it. They are very selective about which areas gets updates to regulations and infrastructure. Yet conservatives tell us that systemic racism doesn't exist.
Recently I learned that the plates I grew up eating from have a bit over 18000 ppm of lead in the decorative glaze. :')
Lead has been used to transport fresh drinking water to thirsty people for *thousands* of years, well before the U.S.A. was ever even a concept in the heads of our forefathers.
The Romans used lead to reinforce the world-famous Roman aqueducts from erosion.
Lead was used by Romans in dinnerware, in makeup, as a seasoning on foods, and there were even several ways of drinking lead *intentionally* such as through a lead and grape based syrup made by heating a lead vessel filled with grape juice, called "sapa."
Nearly every infrastructural pipeline made before *1986* has lead in it. That is an *incomprehensible* amount of lead piping that you seem to believe should have been pulled out over night. And on whos dollar?
100 years ago someone builds a house, they pay a guy to put pipes in, the guy puts pipes in -- bang -- job done. 20 years later old boy kicks the bucket, the house is sold, someone new moves in and then *they* spend 20 years in that house before retiring and moving to Boca Raton. The house is sold again. This time the owner spends 20 years living in that house, drinking and bathing out of 60 year old pipes that were made using "perfectly safe" metals before reading about "lead lined pipes causing illness" in his morning paper. He goes to the doctor, what do you know, he has high levels of lead in his system. Who pays his medical bills? Who pays for the pipes to be replaced? The previous owner had nothing to do with the construction, you never met the original owner, and certainly never met the contractors (if they were even contractors to begin with), so who are you going to blame? Yesterday lead pipes were safe and everyone had them, now I'm supposed to come up with the money to lay all new pipes?
Maybe you're also forgetting the very real socioeconomic factors that surround the process of replacing lead lined pipes? I mean, have you even asked *anyone* who has had their lead lined pipes replaced what kind of hoops *they* had to jump through in the first place?
Probably not. You'd rather be a terrorist and make everything racist.
"Those specific dudes over there of a specific skin color don't have lead in their water. Oh, but a guy with a different skin color does? That's racist!!"
I see Americans. I see U.S. citizens. I see people who have no more -- and no fewer -- rights than myself. And I see humans struggling to reconcile a misunderstanding of an ancient people.
But I'll be right here for when you can find evidence to support your claim about systematic racism. You know, like, a law or statute that that exemplifies your position about an entire country of people and how you view the world?
Spoiler alert: you won't find one. I hope you do, honestly, we could shed some light on it together and make a change in real time... but you wont.
I am glad to see this happening. Always glad to see people's lives being improved because people are seeing things through to completion. I hope this continues.
About 15 years ago, I did a little bit of work for an app that was made to track and grade infrastructure in each state, city and county.
I spent most of my time being shocked by what I was seeing.
I can summarize by saying there were very few good grades across the board.
I live on a farm in SE Wisconsin, love this video. I voted for Mandela Barnes, you need to run again.
Again, problems than can be fixed but people crying ‘MUH MONEY’ have gotten in the way.
Holy shit. This is going to sound fucking insane, but I think I actually recognize you. Like, from a discord server.
It should have been fixed a long time ago. By cities raising their rates to get the money.
Phasing out lead pipes in 10 years throughout the US with grant money, not loans. Biden-Harris listening to all the community members on the front lines and the Infrastructure bill now financing and training people to do the work did this. Heroes. Long overdue, 10 years is too long and adversarial, forces motivated by greed and prejudice still at work, but courageous forces of good also do exist and are hard at work. Bless you all!
Punctuation was taught in early school. You doing okay, bud? There’s an app for that.
@@HoustonRacewayKidis a troll come to derail.
I live in Milwaukee and my house had its lead pipes replaced last year!!!
Credit where credit is due. At least Biden/Harris started to make progress on this issue. BBB (stopped by Manchin and Sinema) would have been the greatest policy which would include investments in infrastructure.
They are bailing out cities that did not raise their rates to make the necessary investments. They are penalizing the rational to help the irrational. That's evil.
TY President Biden for the infrastructure project and help our fellow people. HARRIS WALZ 💙🇺🇲
Madison, WI handled this a few years ago. It was a pain but it was worth it.
This reminds me of being in highschool in 2016 and the water at the school was deemed "unsafe". It was always common knowledge that the water in the science labs were dangerous and bad to drink but the rest was fine??. They found out the entire water in the school was like %8000 of lead and other bad stuff. There were stacks of water bottles(crates full) in every corner of the halls and they shut down ALL water fountains. The lunch people had to cook with bottled water too.
Welcome to capitalism where being ghoulish to make a profit is rewarded.
@@Official-Comments Your tongue must be tired after so much bootlicking and corporate media cock sucking. I recommend you get ground news so you can see the actual news, facts, without any bias and see who owns the media sources the stories are coming from. You don't have to be this way. As a country of immigrants, NO ONE is "unauthorized." That's just plain bigoted. We are ALL from Earth. You cannot have borders on the same planet.
That's capitalism for you. The ultimate destroyer of economies, humanity, quality of life, the environment, and the whole dang planet. Where profit is top priority over people and sustainable business practices. Glad the infrastructure bill is improving a lot for the Americans who need it most. We can do even better and strive to do so! If anyone is curious there is a Quality of Life Statistic measured every year and by each country. The USA, every year, is nowhere near close to #1. The countries in the top 5 for quality of life tend to be Denmark, Sweden, Norway, New Zealand and Australia. Those countries also don't have the levels of predatory capitalism we have, nor conservative run governments nor religious populations. So that's what really increases the quality of life: little to no predatory capitalism, conservatives, and religion. it just makes life better considering the end goal for religions, conservatism, and capitalism IS ultimate destruction.
capitalism is designed to reward greed and existing power.
@@Official-Comments What?
You know that nearly 1/4 of UK domestic water services have lead piping. It is not just a US problem, you just don't ever look outside the US.
White kid here. I had to be monotaured for lead from when I first remember living to thr time I was 5 or 6. It wasn't poisoning but it was elevated. I had to have blood drawn every few months to ensure the level was going down and my veigns colapsed all the time so a butterfly was necessary. Lead sucks and my parents had insurance to deal with it. I don't know what would have happened if they were less well off.
It would be great to see more on other issues impacting our water in the US and our health like PFAS, nitrate contamination, water affordability and more!
Please look into biochar.
Watch Plant Chompers on pfas. 97% of Americans have pfas in their blood. Pfas has caused deformities and cancer.
My high school had lead pipes. Was up to kids to tell people not to drink from the fountains
Big up on making this video brother. As it's something I've known about for a long time now but it seems in order for action to occur there either has to be enough people that tune in or the right person
I live on the skirts of MKE. i am crushed everytime a tax break comes up and its given out to the people that can AFFORD taxes. These are important fixes needed in this first world country. To neglect it means neglecting the health of the people in it. Keep this rolling.
Thank you Biden for understanding this...
*It's more important for the government to spend all of our money on war against non-threats than to take care of us.*
Damn, Mandela Barnes is making videos for you guys! Shame people in Wisconsin weren't smart enough to elect him to the US Senate over Putin's good friend Ron Johnson.
Because people don’t vote! I sign up to absentee vote every year online. It comes right to my door!
Leaching lead pipes and sodium fluoride;
'Lowering the IQ and creating complacency, one faucet at a time'
The Infrastructure Act did allocate over $3 billion to address this. More will be needed, but first steps always have to be taken to fix a long neglected problem.
This is happening in my neighborhood on the South side of Milwaukee right now!
Water shouldn't be capitalized on, but free to everyone ! Like sunshine !
Well Dam It!!!! No? Too soon? We impacted a flood zone with roads? Oh dam.
Don't say that or some capitalist bastards will figure out how to sell you sunshine.
On the website for my water company it said "Use over extended time may cause cancer"
😮😢😢. .
This is a income level problem not race. Middle class people moved to newer homes in the 80's and 90's where lead was not used, leaving old neighborhoods and houses to be bought by low-income people.
Exactly
It's a responsability problem. Some cities raised their rates to have the money to make the necessary investments and some didn't. And now we are penalizing those who did to reward those who did not.
Redlining, Jerry rigging… it IS INDEED a race issue. Alongside a class issue but still.
How do you think income was spread with respect to race in the 80s and 90s?
I am very sad and appalled that people are being subjected to lead poisoning. I worked with a gentleman, who lost his son at 5 years old, from lead poisoning. I am white, from New England, voting for Kamala Harris who will work for ALL of us. Please vote Blue all the way. I am a 74 year old One Cat Lady, childless not by choice. I want my tax dollars to go to replacing lead pipes to help people and their children to be safe. Having worked with children, I value them. All of them are so worth keeping safe.
So let me get this straight, you'd vote for Kamala who doesn't care about you, instead of voting for rfk jr, who literally talks about specifically making these types of changes?🤔🤦🤦🤷
I would like to point out that nearly 1/4 of UK domestic water services have lead piping. It is not just a US problem, you just don't ever look outside the US.
Lead piping is a very complex problem.
@Jack-jp6ki oh yeah and his weird workout routine ad really helped him look great as well as the fact he contradicts himself constantly and the rest of the Kennedy family didn't want him to run because he is mentally unwell and trust me he is! Go look at the John Oliver episode on him
As a WI resident I feel proud and hopeful
sweet jesus,,,
and wtf
how can you still have leadpipes in drinkingwater.
that is just evil
I've been filtering my shower and drinking water for a decade now. It tastes so much better, but my area isn't full of lead pipes.
Policy can be boring but you make it compelling! Thank you for this video!
In the UK lead water pipes were phased out during the 1960s and made illegal in 1969. In properties built before this time however the lead piping from the houses to the mains remained in situ as it is the property owner's responsibility. This is estimated to be 40% of housing. But it is my understanding that the build up of a biofilm on the internal surface of pipes acts as a buffer. But the corrosiveness of the water needs to be factored in.
At 8.53 nice to see Gabourey Sidibe speaking out about this issue !!
Love Mandela!!!!!!! -Wisconsinite
construction works built this countruction works will make a better county for all. never forget to thank those guys out in the heat and the snow building those roads and those communites and tbh making it great
I grew up in the 80’s (so…100% outside in the dirt) in an unrenovated-ever house from 1908 in the shadow of a smokestack from a WWII era factory and ongoing chemical plant area, down the street from an actual Superfund site. They found high levels of mercury and arsenic in the soil in our yard that explained a lot about some of our plants not flowering and dying in various horrible ways from time to time. Can’t wait to see how it works out for me. I’m firmly into the reaping portion of life.
The state has the money to do it! Tell your state to get it done!
Great video, and very important as always!
i worked as inspector in the metro Detroit area, water mains and service lines to homes. People would refuse the service lines...
Thanks to Biden-Harris , this will be a thing of the past. Vote Blue, if you want the projects finished, it takes time.
When parents bought there house, they weren't informed about the lead water lines.
They installed a lead filter just after the water shut off in the basement to correct the issue.
I was born 4 years after the purchase. I'm now 36, joined the military, become a plumber and opened my own business.
Almost 50 years to replace the lead water mains in my hometown i grew up in.
If they can't replace the water mains quickly, why not install lead filters for free to area that are hit worse then others.
It depends on the state. We have had our water tested and won an award as one of the best in the nation. Two months ago all the houses in our town have to submit information on the piping, that included photos of the pipes to make sure they did not have lead or copper with magnets attached. The inspector came to my house to verify more because it was build during the great depression. We are north enough to be close to the source of water that feeds the Mississippi river, before it becomes polluted. Attach a magnet to your water pipe and if doesn't stick you are in trouble.
So what's worse? Lead pipes in old neighborhoods or no water on the Reservations.
2% of your military budget would fix both, with change if managed well.
Is it a contest for the bottom? If so, how useful is that?
Definitely should get the real estate lobbies on this. If more people explicitly say they will not move to a neighborhood with lead pipes, no matter the house discount, real estate lobbyists might feel pressure to support politicians (state and local) who will be serious about replacing pipes.
I bought my first single family home at the age of 20. One of the documents I was required to be notified of and sign was a LEAD PAINT NOTICE since it had been built with quality in the 1940's and this was required for any home prior to 1970-something, as the old paint layers below could peel and expose residents to its neuro-toxicity
There was some kind of black pipe more recently (90's?) used in mobile homes which was also super toxic and had to be removed and replaced (I learned this as my mother sold her mother's home and was moving into one).
So I just don't understand why water (something every living thing needs to literally survive) pipes made with lead, haven't been addressed until now. I'm thrilled it's being rectified now, as well as it can be, and this is exactly the kind of thing which makes me cautious of other new-ish developments (gene replacement, toxic everything, etc.) we're told are so amazing.
Always do your due diligence, use your critical thinking skills and make the best decision for yourself and your loved ones at the time you're informed enough to do so. It's the only way you have a chance. EATING GARLIC does help mitigate lead exposure and remove it safely from the body, according to our own US government. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22151785/
It begins with "Previous studies on animals have revealed that garlic (Allium sativum) is effective in reducing blood and tissue lead concentrations. The aim of this study was to investigate therapeutic effects of garlic and compare it with d-penicillamine in patients with chronic lead poisoning."
When it comes to the only body I'll ever get, for my money, I trust my ancestors' knowledge for nutrition and maintaining health in common sense ways they knew well and we have been largely pulled away from. It's beautiful to see traditional organic (everything used to be) farmers, regenerative agriculture methods, AMP farmers, homesteaders and other "health nuts" paying attention and bringing this back to the forefront. Soil health is pure gold from a value standpoint, as is protecting (not poisoning) our pollinators. Clean water & air, things we take for granted.
THANK YOU ALL for paying attention and working together to make our existence more life-sustaining and comfortable rather than the opposite, suffering and disease.
Why does your comment turn all weird in the middle?
This is VERY near and dear to me!
If you maintain the chemistry correctly once the scaling of the pipe happens there is little to no risk. The problem is when the municipals cheap out and change the chemistry of the water which is what happened to Flint. Once you strip the protective scaling your done. Nearly every city in the US has lead pipes.
Thank you Government
With this knowledge, it's why people have trouble learning and growing to try and become better. The top 1% is all that matters to those who control the money.
Praying things actually continue well for those who have such poor water quality.
I have been writing on Social media for over a decade we need to rebuild the entire Country from the ground up. Modernization for another 200 centuries. Instead of banaids that kick the can down the road
Get it done. It should have been fixed as soon as anything happened
Interview Jordan Chariton. He has covered this issue for years.
Thank god, I checked with my local water department and no lead service lines in my area but I hope they replace it in area they do have ot
Growing up in/around flint, i was lucky. We lived just blocks outside of areas effected by the Flint Water Crisis. Bad times man. Bad times.
Unfortunately Flint Michigan this was 10 years too late. Even with most of the pipes be replaced that was just the pipes going to the house not inside the house. then you got the additional problem of them still being a liquor tell me a water.
It's not a rich country. It's 50 rich people. It's a poor country now, and that's something people will have to change. Asking politely won't.
We have a nice country, just don't drink the water😂 Seriously this so wrong and our Govt should be ashamed! Clean food and water is basic.
Yes city governments should be ashamed for not raising rates to make the necessary investments. Instead we reward them with hand outs.
Wow but… howcome Illinois & Wisconsin are the only actual counts… & Illinois is the highest which is crazy, I had no clue I grew up in the suburbs of Chicago & the city.
Holy hell was this an amazing endorsement of Kamala Harris, I love it! I'd been wondering about the Flint, Michigan water issue and how it's still not fixed and it seems there is a plan to fix everything
Whatever happened to my job at the border construction? Please explain it to me like I’m 5, when I was actually the subcontractor for the wall. I’d kiss you if I could.
@@HoustonRacewayKid The most common way for "undocumented" workers to get into the country is fly in on a temporary visa, then overstay.
Wall is just kind of useless when airplanes exist.
Great,great info thank you
Love this content, can y’all start citing sources in the description?
And to think... of ALL the other ideas there are for Capitalists to invest in, restrict, price gouge & get rich from... they chose to play with a literal necessity of life.
Thanks Joe!
At least they have public healthcare to get free testing and treatment right? Right?
why is it that no one ever asks "how do we pay for another nuclear carrier?" but when it's saving kids lives or veterans congress drags their feet or go on vacation?
This is happening everywhere in America not just in big cities, rural America is infested with them too.😢
Want to revolt
Keep up the informative content 🔥👍
Thank you for sharing
…. I know it’s both sides here but there are more examples of the right actively voting against legislation that would help this crisis. Vote blue so the lead poisoning doesn’t impact another election
@digitalreject3233lol man I know its like they wanna distract everybody with lead poisoning while they poison our youth with grooming and hormones and then murder the unborn ones 😂😂😂😂😂